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From: Ted Mayett <teddy@skylink.net>
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Subject: Vegas Picket - Day One (again)
Date: 28 Dec 1995 05:25:59 GMT
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My sign said,

____________
      I
  Want
    My
  Declare
____________

I notified the police at 1:48pm and arrived at the Sahara building at 
3:27pm, and they were ready.  Normally there are 8-12 vehicles parked in 
the lot.  When I arrived there were 17.  In the short time I picketed 5 
police vehicles cruised by.   It certainly seems Scieno  has someone 
sympathetic in the Police Dept.  

3:27 I started marching.  3:33 about 7 of them crowded the glass door to 
smile and wave at me.
They crowded their side of the door.  The street was mine.  One of them, 
before they crowded the door, asked me about the sign.  I told her I have 
been on the internet asking OSA for the Declare and they will not give it 
to me so I'm picketing for it.  And that was all I said at that time.

Everything was uneventful for about 30 minutes.  I made eye contact 
whenever I could and hit them with the baddest TR 0 they have ever seen. 
 About 3:45 this older woman I have never met before came out to talk 
with me.  I told her that she would have to walk with me if she wanted to 
talk because walking is a picket requirement.  And so we walked and 
talked.  I told her about 1995, 5 raids, 15 new lawsuits, 20 million in 
attorneys, Germany, Canada, The Netherlands.  She asked me how I knew it 
was true.  I told her I had asked OSA repeatedly to deny it.  Which I did 
a few times those first few weeks on the net VIA e-mail to theta.com.  
She said the internet is full of lies, I said it has court documents and 
newspaper articles.  But that she should ignore those and stay with 
Freedom mag, Auditor and Impact.  I asked if she remembered when the 
study tech was used to teach 1.5 million children in S. Africa.  She did. 
 I told her the people in S. Africa never saw it happen.  The bantering 
went back and forth for awhile.  I almost slipped up once, told her 
scieno was the most barratrous, and I almost said cult, instead of 
religion.  After awhile I wore her down, she really started to listen.  I 
kept it all very, very gentle.  I lied a lot.  I took the stance that 
Hubbard and Scientology were good, that the problem was OSA.  That OSA 
was out-tech and dragging scieno down.  That the tech was not being 
followed by OSA.  She asked why I was picketing.  I said I care about 
scieno, that I am here to shake staff out of their apathy, that only 
Scientologists care if Scientology survives, and the Scientologists don't 
care.  I waved at the traffic and said it's a real world out here, that 
staff is a laughing stock.  That the modern science of mental health, the 
most technologically developed religion on the planet should be abreast 
of the times.
That the internet would save this org alone $220 a month in long distance 
fees, that planet wide this would amount to millions of dollars.  And yet 
OSA does not allow it.  That somebody has to handle OSA.  That I am here 
as a bridge between management and staff, and that if I have to picket 
for a year to shake off  the apathy I will picket for a year.  Because I 
care about Scientology.
Well I made a sale today, this woman is a believer.  Unfortunately she is 
nothing near an official spokesperson.  We then discussed courses for a 
bit, very gentle conversation.  She said she had to leave, we parted 
company smiling.  As soon as she left me, 4:34pm, I raced across the 
street to my car and drove away.  I'll be training them in the days to 
come.  When they talk to me I will leave, but only if they've really 
listened.

One by one I'll get through to them, and I'll lie a lot.  My only goal is 
to get them on the net.  The web pages will do the rest.



OSA, you must Declare me.  You have no choice.  I have committed crimes 
against the church and I can prove them.

1) I have receipts from 7/28/95-8/5/95 proving I received money back from 
the church.  Also I can subpoena  CCLV staff to prove I received money 
back.  I doubt you can get them all to lie.

2) I held a picket Sep 9 1995 with a sign saying 'stop the raids'.  I do 
not have wog witnesses to this but at least a dozen staff and public 
witnessed it.  Again I doubt that you can get them all to lie.

3) 12/19/95 I placed an ad in the newspaper publicly departing 
Scientology.  I have a copy of the ad.

You must Declare me for these crimes.  I will picket for this Declare 
until you do.  This woman I mentioned asked me why I wanted a Declare.  I 
told her to ask OSA, they know why.  Locally the people do not know why I 
am pushing for this document.  The net knows I will be airing the 
legality of the document in court.  The locals don't.  They are going to 
have to hear it from you.



I've had it with this cult.  I'm taking it to the streets.  Cyberspace is 
fine, cyberspace is fun.  But I'm taking it to the streets.  #scientology 
is a pleasure I cannot enjoy again.  I cannot have my case (no pun 
intended <g>) aired in my presence.  Fact is this picketing will cost me 
time on ARS also.  Only so many hours in a day.  I'm going to be hitting 
them hard from now on.  Arriving at random times, staying for different 
lengths of time.  Some days I'll be there when they open, sometimes when 
they close.  My tolerance level has been exceeded.  I absolutely will not 
walk my city in fear.  As a human being and an American citizen I have 
certain basic rights.  We all have rights.
OSA, you have gone too far.  You will mend your ways or I will not leave 
you alone.  Every time you turn around I'll be there looking at you.  I 
am very angry.  You will stop getting kids fired from their jobs, you 
will stop harassing women, you will stop raiding men's homes.  You will 
change what policies need to be changed or you will be relegated to a 
place in history, a memory.
I cannot hold a candle to the work that has been done and is being done 
on this newsgroup.  What I do do well is the streets, the streets and I 
are old friends.  And that's where I'll be.  If you want to talk to me 
it's going to have to be by e-mail.  If there's a post you want me to 
see, or a post you think I need to see, do it by e-mail.  I'll post at 
least once every 48 hours, I know some of you are concerned.  Of course 
I'll follow ARS as much as possible.  But I will be in the streets.  I am 
going to bring it home to staff and public.  They are going to have to 
deal with me when they enter and leave the orgs.  Here in Vegas their 
days of innocence are over.  It took a few e-mails to say I would be 
declared.  Here's one,

-------------

Wait, there is more.

OSA,
The ad I ran 12/19/95,

I publicly depart Scientology, I do
not believe in Xenu.  I cannot afford
$360,000 for Spiritual Freedom. T.M.

Will run again on 1/1/96.  Again it runs for one day.  I'm giving you 
notice this
time because I want you to scramble to try and stop it.  I know you have 
someone inside
the paper, I just don't know who.  If this ad is stopped I'll find out.
The paper ran the ad once, I'll see them in court if they do not run it 
again.
Small Claims, I'll sue for free ad time.

The ad I want to place will run in 16 newspapers at one time for 5 days. 
 It will cost $1,250.00.
It will be seen in three NV papers and 13 CA papers.  There are 
legalities to be worked out first, I'll be meeting with supervisors in 
'96.  You can stop this bigger ad, give me my Declare and I won't run it. 
 I may run it otherwise.   I will have my Declare.



Today's picket was in memory of a kid found dead on the Apollo.


(this quote is not verbatim, if anyone has it at their finger tips I 
might use it as my sig)

"...now I'm not saying that a bared breast will stop a cannonball, but if 
enough breasts are bared the cannonballs will stop."  L. Ron Hubbard 


